## Document record - Publisher: Palestinian BDS National Committee - Date: 2005-07-09 - Type: Primary, published by the BDS movement - Establishes: That the BDS movement's founding call of 9 July 2005 sets three cumulative demands, including refugee return to homes and properties inside Israel under UN General Assembly Resolution 194. - Original: https://bdsmovement.net/bds-call - Archived copy: No archived copy yet. - Citation id: S126 # The BDS call of 9 July 2005 ## What this document is This is the founding document of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign: a civil-society call dated 9 July 2005, signed by roughly 170 Palestinian organisations, and published by the Palestinian BDS National Committee on its own website [S126]. Everything the movement has built since, the national committee, the academic and cultural boycott guidelines, the anti-normalization rules, the national campaigns, is framed as implementing this text. It is cited here as an opposition-primary source: the movement speaking about itself, in its own words. ## What it establishes The call describes the measures it proposes as non-violent punitive measures, to be maintained until Israel does three things [S126]: 1. ends its occupation and colonisation of all Arab lands occupied in 1967 and dismantles the separation barrier; 2. recognises the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; 3. respects, protects and promotes the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN General Assembly Resolution 194 [S126]. Two features of that structure carry most of the weight on this site. The demands are cumulative: the campaign ends only when all three are met, not when any one is [S126]. And the second and third reach inside Israel's 1948 lines rather than the territories occupied in 1967 [S126]. A boycott that continues until refugees have returned to homes and properties inside Israel has taken a position on what Israel will be, whatever the movement's explanatory pages say about being rights-based rather than solution-based. The same structure explains why the movement rejects boycotts confined to settlement products. A settlement-only measure can satisfy none of the three demands as the call frames them. ## Key passages The call describes what it proposes as "non-violent punitive measures" [S126]. The third demand is framed as the right of refugees "to return to their homes and properties" under Resolution 194 [S126]. ## How it is used on this site The call is cited on [What is BDS?](/claims/what-is-bds/), [Does BDS want one state?](/claims/does-bds-want-one-state/) and [Is BDS antisemitic?](/claims/is-bds-antisemitic/), and in the [glossary](/glossary/), [key facts](/key-facts/) and [timeline](/timeline/). ## Provenance and access The call is published on the movement's own site at bdsmovement.net. No archived copy has been recorded for it, and the site's source index still marks this entry as not independently verified against an archived copy. Several of the movement's older pages, including its own frequently-asked-questions page, now return errors on the live site, so an archived copy matters more here than for most documents. ## Page history 2026-09-21: First draft.